Short Story 71: Silhouette

Dave Lebling · 29 Jul 2014, 23:08 · from 2014-July.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:08:12 -0400
Subject: (urth) Short Story 71: Silhouette
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 From my viewpoint, I would say that the idea that time is quantized is 
a perfectly reasonable SF supposition, given that it has been a 
postulated theory of physics for quite a long time. In fact, lots of 
ideas that were current in physics when the story was written are now 
pretty much dead parrots, but this parrot is still more or less alive. 
(At least until you look at it and determine whether it's alive or dead.)

Dave Lebling

On 7/29/2014 4:52 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Paul - you are, of course, correct about "quantized." My bad. And the 
> rest is well said.
>
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